He's maintained it's a hard deadline that his leadership team does not plan to extend, like the union has in the past, and that he's not afraid to take roughly 150,000 auto workers out of factories if necessary.
"I expect there to be a strike," said Art Wheaton, a labor professor at the Worker Institute at Cornell University. "I think there's a reasonable chance they strike Stellantis first and then give a couple more days for Ford and GM to give a better offer." The Biden administration has taken particular interest in the talks, including the appointment of longtimeWall Street has warned of a potential work stoppage for several months, and investors have taken heed.
United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 in Detroit.o be clear, it's not exclusively up to Fain to call for strikes. It's up to the UAW's 14-member International Executive Board , which Fain leads as president. The leaders, based on weighted votes, must approve such a work stoppage by a two-thirds majority vote.